The Role and Impact: Reporting to the Commercial Director, Greater China Region (GCR), this New Business Manager role is responsible for driving the revenue growth of the S&P Global Platts business by aggressively and rapidly seeking new business footprints into different customer segments within assigned Greater China region to "hunt"/acquire new customer logos. This role is also required to be passionate about driving and delivering our Commercial transformation goals as we seek to implement diagnostic-based sales approach and a client-centric sales process. Additionally, he/she will actively participate in new initiatives that will enable Platts to accelerate its growth rate in the Greater China and APAC region.

The Team / The Business: The team is composed of experienced sales professionals. The business has a casual and friendly atmosphere with an entrepreneurial spirit. We value team work and it is crucial that you are a team player in order to be successful within our organization.

Your Skills: You are a consistently over performing New Business Development expert (Hunter), with a consultative and enthusiastic approach cum entrepreneurial mindset, high self-motivation and resiliency to rapidly successfully pursue/acquire new clients and opportunities. You possess exceptional communication skills with a natural ability to articulate ideas and complex information in a clear and structured manner. You have in-depth knowledge of the commodities market industry and well-aware of what's happening. You have strong personal integrity, negotiation skills and view every rejection as a challenge to convert to a "Yes".

Responsibilities:Consultative Sales and Negotiations

Meets and exceeds revenue quota through the management and execution of the new business sales process

Promotes and sells portfolio of products (existing and new) to new customers. Develops and consultatively sell appropriate product/service solutions, cultivates referrals, generate new opportunities, actively follow up on leads and drive a healthy pipeline that is characterized by strong velocity and volume

Growth achieved with full attention to rapidly acquire new customers to boost both subscription dollars (deal size) and number of new logos to add to our customer base Increased Customer Engagement

Identify and initiate new client relationships and properly handover new clients (after onboarding) to inheriting Account Manager/ Business Development Manager to nurture for maximum Customer Lifetime Value for S&P Global Platts.

Leverage the knowledge built on customers and inputs from other functions within S&P Global Platts and across S&P Global divisions to ensure alignment with customer needs and S&P Global Platts strategy

Develop and maintain territory and account plans which outline how sales targets will be met on an ongoing basis; drive marketing campaigns to successfully deliver against new logo acquisition objectives

Research for Account Planning and related customer/market intelligence

Continuous learning to maintain a high level of relevant domain/product knowledge in order to have meaningful conversations with customers and prospects

Staying current on competitor offerings to identify the strengths and vulnerabilities of S&P Global Platts offerings in comparison

Our Hiring Manager says: "I'm looking for an individual contributor who is a proven and successful "Sales Hunter" to help S&P Global Platts drive exceptional growth by actively onboard new customers into our portfolio in a sustainable yet speedily manner that increases our market share and fosters strong customer relationships that translates into higher customer satisfaction rates and advocacy (e.g. S&P Global Platts Net Promoter Score) over the long term."

Requirements:

Degree with minimum 3-5 years of successful new business development (hunting) experience, preferably in commodity, financial information or software technology provider role (e.g. Thomson Reuters/Refinitiv, Bloomberg, IBM)

Hunter traits: Intrinsically motivated by growing business beyond where people think it can go. Entrepreneurial mindset; demonstrates drive, perseverance, energy and sense of urgency

Excellent communication and presentation (verbal/ written) skills in English and Mandarin, with a Chinese dialect language as a bonus. Must utilize strong phone (especially cold calling), interpersonal skills, ability to work in a team environment to engage effectively with customers and other functions.

Desire and flexibility to learn and grow in an ever-changing environment

Proven ability to thrive and excel in a fast paced dynamic environment with high performance expectations. Work effectively in a team as well as independently, take initiative to resolve tasks with a can-do attitude and have a financial analytical mindset

Proven success in doing business in Greater China is a must and specifically in APAC is a bonus. Strong multi-cultural awareness and regional experience is preferred

Broad understanding of the energy & commodity industry including understanding the personas of front, mid and back office functions, as well as analysts is preferred

Possess a Change Agent mindset and embrace commercial best practices, sales excellence and desired culture of values and behaviors

Values and Behaviors:Our values are Excellence, Relevance and Integrity. We are professional, setting and maintaining high standards in our interactions with our colleagues, always demonstrating the value that our data and services can bring to our customers. We are honest, transparent and responsive, showcasing our knowledge, and expertise to our customers. We foster and develop relationships to ensure we are accountable to and engage with our customers, partners and colleagues. We place diversity business objectives and the need to embrace openness, honesty, trust and respect ahead of our own personal goals. We understand the need to embrace change and ensure that customers are at the heart of everything we do. Our customers drive our tech-savvy initiatives, our desire to be lean and agile as well as our passion to develop ourselves and each other so we can deliver innovative, cost efficient growth opportunities for our customers. We understand that as we grow, our customers grow too.

About S&P Global Platts:S&P Global Platts is the leading independent provider of information, benchmark prices and analytics for the energy and commodities markets. For over 100 years, we've brought clarity and transparency to the energy and commodities markets, enabling companies, governments and individuals to act with conviction. We know that data is key to decision making, but information alone isn't informative: it can be interpreted in many ways and inform drastically different decisions. The knowledge and experience of our people makes the difference, offering insight that helps customers in 190 countries to interpret fluctuations, uncover new commercial opportunities and gain a competitive edge. A division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), S&P Global Platts is headquartered in London and employs over 1,200 people in more than 19 offices worldwide located in global business and energy centers on five continents. We employ only the best in the market, and each member of our team is committed to providing an unbiased perspective to help our customers monitor market movements, value commodities, recognize opportunities, mitigate risk, and plan with greater confidence.

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